The normal question you expect to find in a personal finance website is ‘Decide on how to fund your car’..but let us go one step behind! In the last 6 months I have seen 3 kids getting a Nano to go to college. Luxury or Necessity? No comments. Reality. I have seen a person […]

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1st news item: Pawar hints at sugar decontrol. Sugar stocks go up. Amazing news item! Sugar decontrol is as difficult as fuel prices decontrol but the government will go ahead and do it. However all this thought will only be when sugar is in SURPLUS. When sugar is in surplus, many (if not most) sugar […]

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Our FM has at last politically consented to an increase in fuel prices. So if you are a shareholder, rejoice. Your company is now perhaps 12 months away from bankruptcy instead of 2. That is about all. Look at the fertiliser subsidy. Who gets it? Farmers growing potato for Pepsi, Coke, ITC, – so that […]

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Investors face all kinds of risks in the financial markets.There is credit risk – the risk that a borrower will default on an obligation. Liquidity risk – the possibility that you will not be able to convert a security into cash when you need the money. Market risk – the likelihood that the share market […]

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